Peter Molyneux, who left Microsoft and Lionhead Studios following Fable III, has come to the defence of the company he left not long ago. Speaking to Tech Radar Molyneux felt Microsoft had been treated unfairly following the announcement of Xbox One:
"It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time," he said. "[People] didn't really think that through."
"I know Microsoft, I know they were only doing things because they thought they were long-reaching and long-thinking. But the world we live in now is that we have to realise, especially if you're a big corporation, if you make one step wrong, the world will leap on you, and unfairly, very unfairly, they will judge you."
Molyneux went on to compare with mobile devices where the gaming experience is already not the same when you're playing offline. He also stated that perhaps Microsoft didn't sell the changes well enough and that people now expect "overcompensation", not just the recent reversal.